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Calçot is a type of green onion.

Calcot
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The place

Calçot is a type of green onion. The name calçot comes from the Catalan language. The calçot from Valls (Catalonia) is a registered EU Protected Geographical Indication.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Calcot

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Elm Park

    Elm Park was a football stadium in the West Reading district of Reading, Berkshire, England. The stadium was the home of Reading Football Club from 1896 to 1998, when the club moved to the new Madejski Stadium.

    3.6 km · Football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tilehurst Water Tower

    Tilehurst Water Tower is a distinctive water tower in Tilehurst, a suburb of the English town and borough of Reading. It lies on a ridgeline at the highest point of both the borough and the town, with its base at 100 metres AMSL. Together with its own intrinsic height, this makes it a prominent landmark that can be seen from a considerable distance, especially when approaching Reading from the west along the M4 motorway.

    1.3 km · water tower in Tilehurst, Reading, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Englefield House

    Englefield House is an Elizabethan country house with surrounding estate at Englefield in the English county of Berkshire. The gardens are open to the public all year round on particular weekdays and the house by appointment only for large groups.

    3.8 km · Elizabethan country house in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Burghfield Lock

    Burghfield Lock is a lock on the River Kennet at Burghfield in the English county of Berkshire. Burghfield Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury, and this stretch of the river is now administered by the Canal & River Trust and known as the Kennet Navigation.

    1.6 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Garston Lock

    Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It is near the M4 motorway and near Reading, Berkshire, England.

    1.1 km · lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Burghfield/Theale, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mark, Reading

    The Church of St Mark, Reading, is an Anglican church in Cranbury Road, Reading, Berkshire. It is part of the parish of St.

    3.9 km · grade II listed church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Calcot Park

    Calcot Park is a country house, estate, and golf club in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated between Calcot and Tilehurst, suburbs of the town of Reading, and within the civil parish of Tilehurst.

    1.3 km · country house in Tilehurst, West Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Michael

    St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, is the parish church of Tilehurst in the English county of Berkshire.

    1.8 km · church in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wilder's Folly

    Wilder's Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.

    1.4 km · brick tower in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Theale, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. It was completed in 1832 in the Early English style, influenced by Salisbury Cathedral.

    2.1 km · church in Theale, West Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Calcot

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Luton (LTN), 67 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 68 km
Stations
Theale railway station, 1.9 km · Tilehurst railway station, 3.7 km · Reading Green Park railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Calcot
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Calcot
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Calcot
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Calcot

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Calcot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe local authority has published a cycle map, which shows off-road and low-traffic routes around the town.

From Wikivoyage: Reading (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    86 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    533 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    569 km

If you know how people move in Calcot – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Calcot

Calcot is 6 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Thealevillage in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Burghfieldvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Englefieldvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England3.4 km
  • Sulhama village located in West Berkshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Tidmarshvillage in Berkshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Holybrookcivil parish in Berkshire of England900 m